ROGER CONLON
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Trained at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Roger is a figurative Artist living and working in Bristol. 

He has taught across a large range of students and educational levels  and managed the curriculum and development of art and design within higher education in the UK.

Art Education

1980 - 83 Royal Academy of Arts, London – Post Graduate Diploma in Painting
1977 - 1980 Bristol Polytechnic BA (Hons), Fine Art

Exhibitions etc

Pre 2000 
RA student prizes : Print Prize, Landseer Scholarship, Kennington Drawing Prize, David Murray Landscape Award
Exhibited :
RA Summer Show
South London Art Gallery
John Laing Painting
Southwest Open
British Open Printmaking
Solo shows:
Exe Gallery, Exeter
Davies Gallery, Torquay
Guild Gallery, Bristol
Painting Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Virginia, USA
Painting commissions for Lloyds Bank,  Cheshire Home

Post 2000 
Consultant, writer   and co –presenter  with Toyah Willcox  of  TV series ‘Lifeclass’  for HTV September 2002 
2010
one man show Milner Gallery, Royal West of England Academy 
2011
RWA Autumn Exhibition
Wotton Arts Project
2012
Drawing, Permanence & Place touring exhibition
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
Galerie Waidspeicher im Kulturhof Krönbacken
Erfurt, Germany
Drawing Permanence and Place 2
museum voor vlakglas- en emaillekunst
Ravenstein The Netherlands
2013
Bristol Art Prize 
Porth Leven prize and Plein Air prize winner
'Cornucopia' Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol
2016
Discerning Eye  Mall Galleries London
2023
Centrespace gallery Bristol
Discerning Eye  Mall Galleries London

Work in public and private collections
Lloyds TSB
Cheshire Homes
North Bristol NHS Trust
 

2011 - 2019   full time HE role
Deputy Dean    Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education   University of the West of England Bristol  
 




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  • Places
  • Outdoors
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  • People and Things
  • Childrens books
    • Never Let a bear
    • No Time to Play
  • Contact
  • About Roger
  • Teaching
    • 12 stage drawing course
    • Learning from masterpieces
  • New Page